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In today’s edition, our team from Capitol Hill explores how the Republicans join the Democrats in efforts to verify President Donald Trump’s prices. In addition, Allan Smith plunges into the success that Democrats have found in elections so far this year.
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The legislators of both parties increase their efforts to brake Trump on prices
By Sahil Kapur and Scott Wong
The fallout from President Donald Trump New aggressive prices Has prompted Congress to action, an increasing number of Republicans joining the Democrats to express their interest in using their power to hold it back.
1 and 1 Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, presented a bill with Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Who would reaffirm the authority of the Congress and slam the restrictions on the power of the president to take prices.
Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., congratulated Grassley for the bill because “he believes that we are a coequal branch”. He said he would vote for this, although he was not clear if the bill would be brought to the Senate.
2 This decision was made after four Senate Republicans delivered a rare reprimand to Trump on Wednesday evening, joining each democrat to adopt a measure to revoke their prices in Canada. Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., The author of the resolution, said that he was trying to rely on this success with more invoices to block Trump’s prices.
He said that “much more” than four Republicans were interested in its resolution than to vote ultimately for this, predicting that more will come on board “while economic reality settles”.
3 and 3 On the other side of the Capitol, democrats in the senior chamber said they were looking to adopt a resolution interrupting Canadian prices, similar to what the Senate voted this week. Given President Mike Johnson, R-La., Has reluctant to show any light of day with Trump, the Democrats explore an end of the head around the leaders of the GOP in the Chamber.
Representative Gregory Meeks, DN.Y., said that he would deposit what is called an exit petition, a legislative tool that would allow supporters to bypass the leaders of the GOP and to force a vote on the legislation if they could obtain 218 signatures. At least a moderate republican, the representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, said that he would plan to support him.
Stocks plunge: Thursday, the main American stock market indices saw their worst day’s decreases since the start of the COVVI-19 pandemic, Rob Wile Report.
The S&P 500 fell by 4.8%, while the Nasdaq dropped by 6% – both the worst since 2020. The industrial average of Dow Jones has decreased by 4%, more than 1,600 points – its worst sale since 2022.
Trump does not move: However, Trump minimized all panic on his new prices.
“The markets will explode, the stock will explode, the country will explode,” Trump Tell to journalists.
Democratic performance is improving in a multitude of elections this year, while a tired party is looking for signs of hope
By Allan Smith
The Democrats spent the first months of the second administration of President Donald Trump wandering in the political desert – Faced with record popularity While the competing factions compete on how to take exactly the president.
And yet, during the special elections after the special elections so far this year, democrats are reproducing better against republican opponents than last fall in Trump’s play with Kamala Harris.
In 16 legislative elections and the Congress of Special States which have been held so far this year, the Democrats have improved their margin of victory or defeat compared to the battle of Trump-Harris of 2024 on average of around 11.5 points, according to the data collected by the political site The Downballot. The Democrat has outperformed in 14 of these 16 competitions, in particular by turning the districts of the deep red state in Iowa and Pennsylvania.
These trends continued on Tuesday. In Florida, although the Republicans Comfortably maintained with two very pro-Trump house seatsThe Democrats improved their margin of defeat in the 1st district of 22 points and 16 points in the 6th district compared to the results of Harris there last fall.
And in the high degree Breed of the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin This has attracted the most national attention of all the competitions organized so far this year, the liberal candidate Susan Crawford has beat the conservative candidate Brad Schimel by 10 points, just a few months after Trump won the battlefield by less than one point. More than 2.36 million voters have proven in this race, only about 300,000 people than those in mid-term of 2022.
The election results have injected a jolt of confidence in the Democrats, who have not had little to celebrate since Trump’s victory in November and like him and Elon Musk pursue substantial cuts to programs and federal workforce.
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